Senior Financial Accountant

Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,500+ lounges and travel experiences, including dining, retail, sleep and spa, in over 650 airports in 148 countries, helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception – from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, EasyJet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2,200 global colleagues.

Purpose of the job

The Senior Financial Accountant will work within the Insurance finance team of the Collinson Group. They will work as an integral part of the finance team with the Financial Reporting Manager, supporting the production of monthly management accounts, the statutory accounts and regulatory reporting and being key points of contact during the audit process.

The Senior Financial Accountant will be responsible for supporting the Financial Reporting Manager in reviewing the monthly management accounts for accuracy of the results. They will support any process/ system changes within the team and ensure a strong and effective control environment exists with a specific emphasis on improving month end close and associated reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• The Senior Financial Accountant will deputise for the Finance Reporting Manager and support the wider team when needed, ensuring a collaboration across the deliverables

• Support the Financial Reporting Manager to establish and maintain high quality and timely management accounts

• Review of period related P&L trend analysis and analytical reviews to ensure Group and the business have a good insight into key movements and the financial performance of each entity, highlighting any exceptions to management

• Support the Financial Reporting Manager with the reviews of the month end journals: revenue accruals, earning journals, IBNR, claims paid, profit share journals and any ad hoc adjustments required, and support the Financial Accountants as required with variance analysis and any other ad hoc requirements

• Support the Financial Reporting Manager with the reviews of the month end result as required

• Deliver the IFRS17 reporting, with consideration for Quarterly regulatory reporting, ensure this is reported through to WTW (Malta Management agent) within agreed deadlines and all queries addressed

• Deliver the year end disclosures and accounting policies for IFRS17 within agreed timelines, with support from the Finance Project Lead, and all assumptions/ decisions to be supported with evidence

• Deliver the Quarterly Finance Solvency II reporting for the UK and Maltese entities, ensuring all reporting is delivered to the Actuaries within agreed timelines

• Deliver the year end Solvency II reporting for the UK and Maltese entities, ensuring all reporting for the UK entity is managed and reported through to the Bank of England within strict deadlines, this deliverable will be supported by the Finance Project Lead with the Actuaries being a key stakeholder

• Work with Commercial Underwriting to implement changes from the Reserving Committee and analysis the impact of these changes on the technical result

• Support Finance Operations to ensure all transactions processed are accurate and complete and recorded in a timely manner

• Support the Financial Reporting Manager on all audits (including but not limited to, internal, 3rd party or year-end), reviewing the year end Group Statutory packs with supporting evidence for balances as required as well as assist with managing audit requests ensuring the evidence for audit samples is sufficient to support the sample requests and performing the walkthroughs with explanations for postings and processes

• Support the completion of VAT, Corporation Tax, IPT and any 3rd party reporting as required

• Assist with continuous embedding and delivery of Finance Transformation projects

• Ensure robust controls are in place and look to enhance where possible

• Ensuring all process documents are regularly reviewed and updated

• Strive to deliver process improvements, delivering ‘best’ in class processes

• Approve supplier payments

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or Equivalent) or qualified by experience

• Good knowledge of SAP system preferable

• High personal levels of motivation and delivery orientated focus working well under pressure

• A proactive, forward looking and challenging mindset

• Detail focused with strong organisation and planning skills

• Ability to interact with and develop working relationships internally and externally in order to achieve best outcomes for the business and customer

• Ability to encourage, train and develop the junior members of the team

• Knowledge and experience of best practice within industry to consistently improve delivery within department

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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